Four World Championships Medals, Two Gold, for Rowing Alums

POZNAN, Poland-Former Radcliffe oarswoman Laura
Larsen-Strecker '08 and former Harvard rower Henrik Rummel '09 won
gold medals for the United States Sunday at the 2009 World Rowing
Championships.

Malcolm Howard '05 also visited the medal stand, earning a
silver medal as a member of the Canadian team, while Esther Lofgren
'08-09 earned a silver for Team USA. A pair of Harvard
lightweights, senior Martin Eiermann and Moritz Hafner '08-09,
rowing for Germany, also reached the A final in their event.

Larsen-Strecker was part of the U.S. women's eight, which won
its fourth straight title at the World Championships in a dominant
performance. The Americans built a 1.82-second lead by the race's
midpoint and proved too much for late-charging Romania, which moved
from fifth to second in the second half of the race. The U.S. boat
finished in 6:05.34, 1.6 seconds ahead of the Romanians.

Rummel won gold in the men's pair with coxswain Sunday. Rummel
and his U.S. teammates came from behind in the final 500 meters to
edge the Czech Republic by a second. The United States clocked in
at 6:53,58, followed by the Czechs (6:54.58) and Germany (6:55.44).

Lofgren and her American teammates held off Canada for the
silver medal in the women's four. They were in fourth place 400
meters in put passed Belarus by the halfway mark and got by Canada
in the sprint. The U.S. entry finished in 6:36.01, 0.86 seconds
ahead of Canada and trailing only wire-to-wire leader the
Netherlands.

Howard added another medal to his already impressive resume.
Howard won silver as part of the Canadian Eight. The Cannucks
finished three seconds behind Germany and a second ahead of the
Netherlands. Tyler Winklevoss '04 and the U.S. eight were
third in the B final and ninth overall. The Americans finished 2.6
seconds behind Australia and 0.24 behind Ukraine.

Cameron Winklevoss '04 placed 13th overall and first in C
final in the men's four.

Martin Eierman and Mortiz Hafner were sixth in the men's
lightweight eight. Italy won the race, followed by the United
States and Netherlands. The Germany crew clocked in at 5:43.40.